I read a cool article from some guy several years ago who discussed either shuffling some sports from summer to winter, or having a third Olympiad. I refer to that piece a couple of times a year. I really should have bookmarked it. The summer games are supposedly capped at 10,500 athletes; every participating federation wishes it more athletes and more events. Julie Foudy went on at length today about roster sizes and number of teams; what she didn't acknowledge is that any increase for soccer would need compensation from athletes in other sports being removed.
I should bookmark it, too. For roster sizes, though, if the alternates are already at the Games, why not let them be available on the bench? I don’t think that would affect the cap. If it does, then the cap is rather meaningless - which, at this point, it probably is.
or this thing that I saw last night on cable tv: What is OmegaBall? Rules of soccer's newest format explained - Futbol on FanNation (si.com)
Softball and baseball are coming back for LA. They're also adding flag football, lacrosse and squash. They've yet to decide whether boxing will be on the program.
very funny, but I still don't understand how this made it on TV...I got headaches just looking at the set up of the pitch.
I saw a CBC article (hey, I'm close to the border. "South Detroit" == Windsor, Ontario) about sports removed over the years. Apparently, Lacrosse was a sport for one olympic (olympics?) in 1904. Canada won the gold AND the silver. Cricket was a sport in 1900. Four countries committed to sending teams, but two dropped out, leaving only Britain and France. Neither won. Britain was awarded silver and France the bronze.
My proposal is that the Summer Games should have no stadium sports (football, basketball, athletics, gymnastics swimming, etc), and only truly outdoor games should remain (triathlon, road cycling, mountain bike, equestrian, archery). Back to judging... Motorsport crashes cause much more serious injuries than that.
So does being involved in a plane crash. That doesn't make that flight to EWR a sport. After you land is another story.
The 1900, 1904 and 1908 Olympics were wild free-for-alls that lasted for months. "Hey, would you hammer throwers like to try tug of war?"
Hey, I did that this summer in Frankfurt except it was between the domestic and international terminals so it involved a stair descent and climb. Also a true concourse run is a slalom. Also, you should have to carry all of the gear provided by your national team.
Ah, you didn't follow the link to the ARISF webpage, because if you had, you'd see the International Airsports Federation would indeed like to be part of the Olympics. Ballooning, hang gliding, parachuting, drone flight, aerobatics, and a whole bunch more candidates for inclusion.
CNN put up a graphic on debut/inclusion of sports in the (modern) Olympics over time: https://www.cnn.com/sport/live-news...2024-08-09#h_326272e1561c21e72af6f724f8410cc5
Reminds me of the story of somebody convincing ESPN to put sky surfing into the first X Games in the mid-90's even though the total number of sky surfers in the world at that point was like 6 or something.
Omegaball is a training drill I did with U8 - U12 kids. (small goals and not really a circle, but otherwise the same.) It was fun for them, kept all the players from sitting around waiting for their turn in a small sided game, and taught them to look for options other than straight ahead down the field. I think it's best left as nothing more than that. Last year it was on ESPN8 (The Ocho). I notice that is on the air again this year so assume that's what it was on again. The Ocho also has Quidditch, bed racing, corgi racing, mustache competition, tire wresting (stuff you opponent into a tractor tire).... Omegaball is actually a more normal event shown.